Retaining sleeve for hanger sets



March 28, 1961 B. B. NEVAI RETAINING SLEEVE FOR HANGER SETS Filed July16, 1959 ELEM/E m I, II I, 7 l, n, m n I Q m J W my e WM m m 4 E M Y BUnited States Patent 1 RETAINING SLEEVE FOR HANGER SETS Bela B. Nevai,169 Wykagyl Terrace, New Rochelle, NY.

Filed July 16, 1959, Ser. No. 827,576 9 3 Claims. (Cl. 206-65) Thisinvention relates to trouser and skirt hangers and more particularly toa retaining sleeve for packaging said hangers and a fiat rectangularmember from which the sleeve is formed.

Trouser hangers, as well as other hangers, are presently merchandised insets of two or more, which are suitably held together as amerchandisable unit by means of a paper sleeve which is wrapped aroundthe body portions of the hangers and secured in sleeve form as by meansof a staple or other fastening means. Such sleeves have been found tohave disadvantages; for example, they are not adaptable to hangers ofdifferent sizes and shapes so that a special sleeve has to be producedfor each such size and shape. In addition, the sleeves are not made insuch manner that the trademark of the manufacturer or distributor, whichis normally stamped on the side surface of the hanger body portion, isvisible. Known types of sleeves do not provide adequate holding force tomaintain the hangers from separating or becoming disassembled.

An object of the present invention is to overcome the disadvantages ofknown sleeves and to provide an improved sleeve having advantagespeculiar to itself.

Another object of the invention is to provide a cutout and scoredrectangular member in the nature of a blank which can be readily fittedaround hanger sets of difierent sizes and shapes and secured in positionin such manner as to tend to keep the hangers together as amerchandisable unit.

A further object of the invention is to construct the blank and thesleeve formed therefrom in a manner which will enable the trademark onthe hanger body portion to be visible at all times.

Other and further objects and advantages will be understood andappreciated by those skilled in this art or will be apparent or pointedout hereinafter.

In the accompanying drawing wherein a preferred embodiment of theinvention is illustrated:

Fig. 1 is a side elevational view of a hanger set to which the newsleeve has been applied;

Fig. 2 is an end view of Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 is a plan view of the flat rectangular member from which thesleeve is formed;

Fig. 4 is a view showing the member of Fig. 3 bent or folded into nearlycomplete form ready for reception of the hangers indicated in phantomtherebelow; and

Fig. 5 is an enlarged fragmentary sectional transverse view showing thecompleted and secured sleeve.

Referring now to the drawing in detail, the numeral designates the flatrectangular member after it has been die cut or otherwise formed fromsuitable paper, cardboard or cellulosic stock. At each end of member 10there is an end panel 11 which, together, ultimately form the bottom ofthe sleeve. Next to the end panels 11 are the intermediate panels 12 andcentrally of member 10 there are uniting portions 13 extending betweenthe inner edges of the intermediate panels 12. These uniting portionsrepresent .the residual parts of a panel which has been cut out at 14 insuch manner as to form semi-circular flaps 15, which are unitarilyconnected at their bases to the adjacent edges of panels 12. The unitingportions 13 each terminate in a marginal strip portion 16, there beingscore lines 17 at the juncture of the strip 16 and the uniting portions13. At 18 there is a slit at each end of each strip, so that the stripsmay move from horizontal toward a vertical position, as shown in Figs. 1and 4.

There are also score lines 19 between panels 11 and 12 and score lines20 between panels 12 and uniting portions 13, as will be particularlyobserved from Fig.

3. The intermediate panels 12 are each provided with a window 21 whichmay be of any suitable dimensions, depending upon the size andarrangement of the trade mark shown at 22 (see Fig. 1) in order that thetrademark of the manufacturer of distributor will be clearly visible atall times after the sleeve is applied to the hanger set.

It will be appreciated that the uniting portions 13 constitute the topof the applied sleeve, that the intermediate windowed panels 12constitute the sides of the sleeve and that the end panels 11 constitutethe bottom of the sleeve when they are bent at score lines 19 andsecured in position, as by a staple 23 (Fig. 5). It will also beunderstood that any suitable printing, advertising or directions for usemay be imprinted upon the available surfaces of the sleeve, includingthe semi-circular flaps 15 and further that the blank and hence thesleeve is adaptable for the reception of hanger sets of different sizes,shapes and numbers and while the hanger set illustrated contains threetrousers hangers, it is to be understood that this is purely forexemplary purposes and that the invention is not limited thereto or tothe particular shape of hanger hook appearing on the drawing.

The marginal strips 16 move from a horizontal toward a vertical positionwhen the sleeve is applied to a hanger set and the particular angularposition of these marginal strips will depend upon the shape and size ofthe hanger hook and exert a small but useful force or pressure on thehooks which, in conjunction with the flaps 15, exert what .is termedfour-point tension; that is to say, the strips 16 and flaps 15 act tocentralize the hooks with respect to the cut-out 14 through which theyextend. The windows 21 permit display of the trademark usually printedon or burned into the wood body portion 24 and the hanger and the hooks25 are made in any suitable or known manner, so that the two-part bodyportion 24 can be opened for the reception of a skirt or pair oftrousers and then the body portion members clamped together.

In applying the member 10, it is preferably first folded into the formshown in Fig. 4 whereupon the hanger hooks are passed upwardly throughcut-out 14 until the uniting portions 13 are in contact with the upperedges of the hanger body portions 24 and then assembly is completed bybending end panels 11 about score lines 19 until the end panels are inhorizontal overlapping position, as shown in Fig. 5, whereupon a stapleis applied in known manner or adhesive can be employed or any othersuitable manner for securing the end panels in their overlappedrelationship to hold the hanger body portions in snug assembly to form amerchandisable set of hangers with the advantages above set forth.

What is claimed is:

1. A flat rectangular member adapted to be formed into a retainingsleeve for hanger sets and comprising an imperforate panel at each end,an intermediate panel inward of each end panel connected to the adjacentend 3 panel by a score line and having an elongated window disposedsubstantially centrally thereof through which surfaces of the hangersare visible and a central panel between the windowed panels, saidcentral panel being connected, by score-line s ,to adjacent portions of:the intermediate panels and having a cut-out portionand a pair ofsemicircular, opposing flaps in thecut-out portion attached at theirbases to the inner edges of the windowed panels and said central panelhaving uniting pontions terminating in marginally scored strips boundingthe sides of the cut-out portion closely adjacent to said flaps.

2. A retaining sleeve for hanger sets comp-rising imperforate end panelsconstituting a bottom, Windowed panels constituting sides and havingelongated apertures through which the hangers are visible and unitingportions constituting the top of the sleeve, upright semicircular flapsrising from the Windowed panels between the uniting portions and acut-out portion between the flaps and the uniting portions to providepassage for 20 hanger hooks through the top of the sleeve.

3. A retaining sleeve for hanger sets comprising imperforate end panelsconstituting a bottom, windowed panels constituting sides and havingelongated apertures through which the hangers are visible and unitingportions constituting the top of the sleeve, upright semicircular flapsrising from the windowed panels between the uniting portions and acut-out portion between the lapping relationship on, the underside ofthe hanger body portions.

References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS2,008,838 -Reed t July 23, 1935 2,230,719 Guild Feb. 4, 1941 2,609,919Lee Sept..9, 1952 2,690,839 Robinson Oct. 5, 1954

